Any suggestions, please? -UPDATE - BUT JOY

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, September 13, 2010 07:59 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 13 September 2010 00:16, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>> I thought you were supposed to douse the chip with a bit of alcohol and
>> then set fire to it to resolder the contacts!
>
> I have heard of some solutions for faulty BGA soldering, but not that
> one. It seems a little extreme. Baking in an oven or directed air from
> a paint-stripping hot-air gun, yes. Fire, probably not a good idea.

Never done it myself. Apparently there are even videos of people 
performing this jury-rig due to lack of tools like the hot-air gun you 
mentioned. Baking in an oven...interesting.


>
>> Well, there must be a reason for motherboard manufacturers to start
>> sticking two or even three bios chips on their boards. Uber hot discrete
>> graphics + uber space heating cpu (okay, okay, that was years ago but
>> still) + enclosed space where the case is placed are probably factors...
>
> I believe it is more to do with faulty BIOS flashing rather than
> actual mechanical failures.
>
>

Basil, own up, You bricked your motherboard on a botched BIOS flash 
upgrade did you not?